Drew, the problem is of course that the Macbook doesn't have a expresscard slot. So the only model left is the Macbook Pro.
So, 2-2.5 percent total global marketshare, similar desktop/notebook ratio as the wintel world. Assuming Macbook make up two thirds of total sales. Leaving ~0.5-1 percent marketshare to Macbook Pro.
In light of this, I fully understand Belkins decision.
As a sidenote, this also showes that Expresscard, while being almost twice as fast as Cardbus, is already lacking in bandwidth. They should have made it at least PCIe 2x, or preferably 4x. A 4x is by the way almost sufficent to saturate a GPU like a Geforce 6800GT with very little performance penalty.
Cardbus was introduced almost ten years ago, when pentium a II 300 was considered high-end. Todays computers are at least a magnitud of scale faster.
What is nice about PCIe although, is that it should be possible to add lines or increase transfer rate without breaking backward compatibility.
Actually guys, it says Sorry Mac users. It's only for PC...
Even though Macbooks were the first to have the expresscard and even though currently there is no kind of docking stations for macs (even though there are a TON for PC).
A lot of Mac users use their laptops as desktops too since they are so powerful (for video, pictures, extensive graphics...). Belkin says their working on one to be compatible with Mac as well, but that's just a might...in the future.
We may be a small number, but I run my office with macs and have one at home - my husband is in the IT field working with PC's all day. After working with a Mac, he said he will never buy a PC for himself ever again. Macs are just that much better.
Candice Lee, maybe you husband's PC is neither no good in PC world, or incidently his company did not give him a good one, and suddenly you showed him a mac (yes, people tend to like new things to them)... So the story begins... PC has huge market where there is both elite and rubbish. With the money you spend on a mac you surely can find a better solution in PC world.
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Drew, the problem is of course that the Macbook doesn't have a expresscard slot. So the only model left is the Macbook Pro.
So, 2-2.5 percent total global marketshare, similar desktop/notebook ratio as the wintel world. Assuming Macbook make up two thirds of total sales. Leaving ~0.5-1 percent marketshare to Macbook Pro.
In light of this, I fully understand Belkins decision.
As a sidenote, this also showes that Expresscard, while being almost twice as fast as Cardbus, is already lacking in bandwidth. They should have made it at least PCIe 2x, or preferably 4x. A 4x is by the way almost sufficent to saturate a GPU like a Geforce 6800GT with very little performance penalty.
Cardbus was introduced almost ten years ago, when pentium a II 300 was considered high-end. Todays computers are at least a magnitud of scale faster.
What is nice about PCIe although, is that it should be possible to add lines or increase transfer rate without breaking backward compatibility.
Actually guys, it says Sorry Mac users. It's only for PC...
Even though Macbooks were the first to have the expresscard and even though currently there is no kind of docking stations for macs (even though there are a TON for PC).
A lot of Mac users use their laptops as desktops too since they are so powerful (for video, pictures, extensive graphics...). Belkin says their working on one to be compatible with Mac as well, but that's just a might...in the future.
We may be a small number, but I run my office with macs and have one at home - my husband is in the IT field working with PC's all day. After working with a Mac, he said he will never buy a PC for himself ever again. Macs are just that much better.
Candice Lee, maybe you husband's PC is neither no good in PC world, or incidently his company did not give him a good one, and suddenly you showed him a mac (yes, people tend to like new things to them)... So the story begins... PC has huge market where there is both elite and rubbish. With the money you spend on a mac you surely can find a better solution in PC world.